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    The Sounds Of Scary, By Kurt Loder  Nov 1, 2008
    (They would play in darkness throughout the film, recalling such shadow-dwellers of the past as Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream. Then the picture began, and the duo set to work. (VHI.com -- Music News)

    ``Centrifuge,'' from Emerging Artist Antherius, Spins Its Way into the #10 Spot on the FMQB Chart alongside Supermajors Maroon 5, Colbie Caillat and Natasha Bedingfield  Jun 20, 2008
    He describes his music as a casserole of elements from a very eccentric continuum of influences including Tangerine Dream, Enya, ELO, The Moody Blues, Brian Eno, and legendary composer John Barry. Only a handful of artists like Antherius exist,who execute all aspects of their music creation from composition, performing all [the synth-based] instruments, arranging, engineering, and even the final mastering. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Houston Based Keyboardist, Composer and Tech Whiz, Antherius, Breaks Into ACQB's Top 20 With His Single ``Centrifuge,'' Alongside Heavy-Hitters Colbie Caillat, Matchbox Twenty and John Mayer  May 16, 2008
    According to Mish Mash Music Reviews, Composer/musician Antherius takes a classic approach to his brand of electronica, harkening back to the days of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, and Jan Hammer. There is definitely a pop and rock undercurrent [as] Antherius doesn't overload his tunes with extraneous beats and instrumentation, opting for a more simple and sparse texture that has a very open feeling, relying more on melody than a wall of sound. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Have Cut Copy made the album of the year? Tony Naylor thinks so.  May 10, 2008
    Produced by Tim Goldsworthy, one half of DFA Records with James Murphy, at the duo's Plantain studios in New York, these sleek, soulful "cosmic pop" songs come bathed in a warm, late-summer glow and reference everything from the Beach Boys to the Pixies to Tangerine Dream ... Dan: "When I first started writing electronic music I listened to Krautrock, stuff like Kraftwerk and Can. From there I discovered Tangerine Dream - which I revisited during this record. As soon as you start accepting what... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    Riffing with the whales: Duets with birds lead musician David Rothenberg to play with the big boys  Apr 5, 2008
    Then the album Songs of the Humpback Whale by whale biologist Roger Payne went platinum, and artists from a wide spectrum, including Paul Winter, Judy Collins, the Partridge Family, Yes and Tangerine Dream incorporated the songs into their popular music. "It was a new cool thing," says Rothenberg. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)

    Jarre gives another Oxygene dose  Apr 3, 2008
    Richard Branson made his first Virgin million on the back of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells (1973); names such as Tangerine Dream, Tomita and Wendy Carlos had solid student-hippy followings ... Like Pink Floyd, Germany's Tangerine Dream didn't release singles during their glory years. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Future of radio's smooth jazz?  Mar 26, 2008
    To me jazz can be anything from Dead Can Dance, Tangerine Dream, Django Reinhardt Chet Atkins Pat Metheny, Ella Fitzgerald or Grover Washington. The current jazz is for the overzealous politically correct crowd that offends everybody with porous musical content. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Yes singer Jon Anderson takes a trip back with School of Rock All-Stars  Mar 8, 2008
    Outside of Yes, he has recorded more than a dozen solo albums and collaborated with the likes of Vangelis, Kitaro, King Crimson and Tangerine Dream. Last week, from his home in San Luis Obispo, Calif. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Stockhausen Left a Divided Legacy, From the Beatles to Boulez: Mark Beech  Dec 9, 2007
    By the 1970s, Stockhausen's beats found echoes in long compositions by German bands Can, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. Miles Davis and Frank Zappa also hailed his work, though some of those who claimed indebtedness might have been name-dropping just to appear cool and cultured: Stockhausen has long been more spoken about than actually listened to. (Bloomberg -- Germany)

    Karlheinz Stockhausen, German Composer Who Stirred Beatles, Dies at Age 79  Dec 8, 2007
    His groundbreaking electronic beats found echoes in long compositions by Can, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream in the 1970s. Of classical composers, Igor Stravinsky was an admirer, though not an uncritical one. (Bloomberg -- Germany)

    Branson sells his Virgin Megastores  Sep 18, 2007
    Other signings include Tangerine Dream and Faust. 1977 Amid huge controversy, Virgin signs the Sex Pistols after they had been sacked by EMI and Aer successful acts through the 1970s and 1980s include Genesis, Simple Minds, Janet Jackson, Phil Collins and Human League. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Why do gyms play such crappy music? (65)  Jun 18, 2007
    -- Giorgio Moroder / Jean-Michel Jarre / Tangerine Dream. but most of all: COCONUT MONKEYROCKET. (Salon)

    Kings of the cosmos  Apr 22, 2007
    Pioneered by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Walter Carlos, then popularised by Tomita, Jean Michel Jarre, and Vangelis, this genre - space music, some call it, or analog-synth epics - has been almost completely written out of the history of electronica ... But it was hugely popular all across the world during the Seventies: Tangerine Dream's albums regularly visited the UK top 10, Tomita's Debussy-goes-synth Snowflakes Are Dancing received Grammy nominations in four different categories, and... (Guardian Unlimited)

    That'll be finca  Apr 4, 2007
    My friend booked that Tangerine dream apt. in Barcelona. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)

    'Turned On' to music of war and gloom  Feb 21, 2007
    In the Turned On context, the most polished and also frightening piece was Mi.T.-CON 04 #3, created by Conrad Schnitzel (a founder of the ambient pop group Tangerine Dream) and Michael Thomas Roe. The title combines the composer s names pronounced Mighty-Con yet sounds more like code for nuclear missles on high-alert. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Romance with the kids in tow  Jan 27, 2007
    Where do you find romance when you've got the kids in tow. Where do you find romance when you've got the kids in tow. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)




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